tastiger opened this issue on May 28, 2008 ยท 48 posts
Byrdie posted Thu, 29 May 2008 at 7:09 PM
Purely as an experiment, I rendered Aiko the way I described. Placed it alongside the questionable photo and asked my sister, who is not an artist and is vehemently against the sort of stuff even conservatives would consider to be tasteful erotica as opposed to the P-word, which of the two images looked like porn. Knowing her, I expected to get an earful about "those dirty pictures on the computer".
She looked at the screen, said, "Huh? Porn?" then looked at me as if I had been smoking a very funny cigarette recently and been on the beer as well. "What porn?" So then I told her about this guy's work getting pulled from art galleries and why. Her reply was something along the lines of, "Oh heck, the wackos are going nuts again, aren't they? Next thing they'll be closing up all the museums and tearing down those statues and palaces out in Rome. Just having no clothes on isn't porn, you'd think they'd have better sense."
She's right, too. :-)